• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.76-83
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• 2013

A real-time wireless monitoring and analysis methods using the wearable PPG sensor to estimate cardiovascular condition is studied for ubiquitous healthcare service. A small size and low-power consuming wearable photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor is designed as a wrist type device and connected with the IP node assigned its own IPv6 address. The measured PPG waveform in the IP node is collected and transferred to a central server PC through the IP-enabled wireless network for storage and analysis purposes. A monitoring and analysis program is designed to process the accelerated plethysmogram (APG) waveform by applying the second order derivatives to analyze systolic waves as well as heart rate variability analysis from the measured PPG waveform. From our results, the features of cardiovascular condition from individual's PPG waveform and estimation of vascular compliance by the comparison of APG-aging index (AI) and ratio of LF/HF are demonstrated.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.493-496
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• 2005

For home healthcare, the unconstrained measurement of physiological signal is highly required to avoid the inconvenience of users. The recording and analysis of the fundamental parameters during sleep like respiration and heart beat provide valuable information on his/her healthcare. Using the air mattress sensor system, the respiration and heart beat movements can be measured without any harness or sensor on the subject's body. The differential measurement technique between two air cells is adopted to enhance the sensitivity. The balancing tube between two air cells is used to increase the robustness against postural changes during the measurement period. The meaningful frequency range could be selected by the pneumatic filter with balancing tube. ECG (Electrocardiography) and respiration sensor (plethysmography) were measured for comparison with the signal from air mattress. To extract the heart beat information from air pressure sensor, digital signal processing technique was used. The accuracy for breathing interval and heart beat monitoring was acceptable. It shows the potentials of air mattress sensor system to be the unconstrained home sleep monitoring system.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.8-16
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• 2010

This research proposes measuring of BCG(ballistocardiogram) to monitor heart activities in a non-constrained environment, at home or work. Unlike with ECG, measuring BCG does not require the attachment of leads on the subject's body and allows signal measuring in a non-constrained state. It enables effective long-term monitoring of cardiac conditions. In this study a chair type BCG measurement system to continuous monitor the activity of the heart is implemented. The instrument consists of upper petal and ready for press of chair load cell sensor is attached to measure the change of the object's weight. In order to extract the output ballistic signal from the weight and force sensor signals. Beside the signal processing circuit for the digital conversion, the ballistic signal is detected using DAQ equipment. Signal processing algorithm including wavelet transforms for noise cancellation, template matching for normalization and peak detection in BCG is developed. ECG and BCG were concurrently measured to evaluate the performance of the system, and comparing the characteristics of the two signals verified the possibility of the system in non-constrained and nonconscious health monitoring.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.98-101
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• 2011

건강에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 헬스케어와 IT와의 결합으로 많은 IT관련 헬스 케어 시스템이 개발되고 있으며, 이러한 시스템의 수요 또한 증가하는 추세에 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 건강에 대한 관심을 반영하여 자신에 맞는 운동을 선택 및 수행하고 그에 따른 피드백을 받을 수 있는 시스템을 소개한다. 본 시스템은 헬스케어의 건강 관리 시스템을 피트니스 관점에 비중을 두어 이용자의 초기 운동 정보를 기반으로 몸에 맞는 운동을 처방하여 운동을 수행 시키고 그 결과를 저장한다. 운동 정보는 생체 신호 계측을 위한 물리량 센서 및 모듈에 의하여 측정된다. 저장된 운동 결과는 다음 운동 처방에 반영되어 피드백 방식으로 이용자의 운동에 적용된다. 운동 처방은 주단위로 수행되면서 지속적인 관리를 받을 수 있도록 설계되었다. 본 시스템은 운동 중 발생하는 무구속, 무자각적 생체 신호 계측을 위한 물리량 센서 및 모듈을 이용하여 다차원 생체 정보를 수집하고 생체 신호 표준화 및 생체 역학적 해석을 통해 데이터베이스를 구축하였다. 이렇게 구축한 데이터들을 통하여 지능형 바이오피드백 기반의 사용자 맞춤형 운동 관리 시스템을 개발하여 사용자의 건강 및 운동능력을 향상시키는데 그 목적이 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1266-1271
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• 2010

In this paper, we implemented a heartbeat-signal monitoring system that can measure and check the heartbeat of a human body in any time and anywhere. The implemented prototype is composed of heartbeat measurement terminal, gateway, and server that collect and process data. The terminal compose sensor network using ZigBee protocol. And server acquire heartbeat signal through differentiating collected data two times, and store above data to database and manage it. We can understand the status of examinee's heart without restriction and self-awareness. Through experiment, we confirmed the possibility of ubiquitous healthcare system based on sonsor network using the ZigBee.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.207-214
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• 1997

This study was performed to verify the effect of axial force due to restraint on the mechanical behavior and the average crack spacing of the reinforced concrett. ilexural menlbers. For. this purpose, the flexural sttvngt.h and rigidity werc experimentally investigated undcl. axially rcstmined and unr.est.rainrd conditions. Furthermore , the average crack spacing was also checkcd for the axilly restrained contlit.ion. Thc test results showd that the flexual strength and rigidity of t,he restrained beam were higher. than those of the unrestrained beam. The major. factors affecting on the average crack spacing were steeel stress, axial force, cicumference of reinforcing bar and effective tension arm of concrete. However. the concrete compressive strength was minor effect. Including thesc factors, a prediction equation for the average crack spacing of the restrained member was proposed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.813-816
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• 2005

Ear detection is an important part of an non-invasive ear recognition system. In this paper we propose human ear detection from side face images. The proposed method is made by imitating the human recognition process using feature information and color information. First, we search face candidate area in an input image by using 'skin-color model' and try to find an ear area based on edge information. Then, to verify whether it is the ear area or not, we use the SVM (Support Vector Machine) based on a statistical theory. The method shows high detection ratio in indoors environment with stable illumination.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.275-276
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• 2016

In this paper, we were implemented the application to induce correct posture by recognizing the incorrect posture of the user. Implemented system uses kinect sensors to determine the user's position information, it has been developed posture determination algorithm that can determine the four wrong posture and correct posture. In addition to PC in order to improve the user convenience and accessibility, to implement real-time monitoring application that can determine the user's position in the smartphone. For the system of performance evaluation of and promote the attitude determination experiment to target the five college students, the experimental results sensitivity and specificity of it it was found that the attitude determination performance is excellent at 0.956.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.118-123
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• 2011

Heart related diseases mainly caused by heavy work load and increasing stress in human daily life. Therefore, researches on mobile healthcare monitoring for daily life has been carried out. Notably, wearable healthcare monitoring system which has least restriction has been tried to provide an emergency alert of abnormal heart rate. In this study, we developed chair type unconstrained BCG measurement system which able to perform continuous heart status monitoring at the office and daily life in the unconstrained way. Furthermore, adaptive threshold is used to detect the heart rate from BCG signals. The HRV(heart rate variability) is calculated from heart rate interval. ECG signal measured using conventional method and BCG signal measured using unconstraint system are carried out simultaneously for the purpose of performance evaluation. From the comparison result, BCG signal shows a similar heart beat characteristic as ECG signal. This proves the possibility of practical implementation of unconstraint healthcare monitoring system. In addition, medical examination like valsalva maneuver is performed to observe the changes in HRV due to stress. By performing valsalva maneuver, heart is said to be placed under an artificial physical stress condition. Under this artificial physical stress condition, the time and frequency domain of HRV parameters are evaluated.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.191-197
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• 2008

This research focused on the development of wireless telemetry system that can monitor heart rates of multiple rehabilitation patients in real time without constraint. The whole system consists of the multiple patient's side devices (PSDs) and one central monitoring system (CMS). The PSD consists of a microphone, amplifier, filter, microcontroller, and RF (Radio Frequency) modem. In addition, the PSD was designed to be wearable and low power consumption. The CMS consists of an RF modem and general PC and it was designed to monitor heart rates from multiple patients simultaneously. The system warns an alarm signal when a patient's heart rate exceeds the pre-set range for each patient. This system can be useful to monitor the heart rate of exercising rehabilitation patients and control the patients condition and the exercising level.